* admin/notes/copyright: Remove info on some files no longer present.
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@ -120,7 +120,10 @@ or even ChangeLogs, for older changes. People often installed changes
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from others, without recording the true authorship.
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[For reference, most of these points were established via email with
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rms, 2007/1, "Copyright years".]
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rms, 2007/1, "Copyright years".
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In March 2011, information on some files no longer included was removed.
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Consult older versions of this document if interested.]
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lisp/version.el # emacs-copyright
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@ -146,13 +149,6 @@ install-sh
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etc/refcards/*.tex
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also update the \def\year macro for the latest year.
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etc/BABYL, ms-kermit
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no notices (see below).
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etc/emacs.csh
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- written by Michael DeCorte, who has no assignment. But trivial
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enough to not need license.
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etc/future-bug
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- doesn't need a humorless disclaimer, because Karl Fogel says we
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can consider it part of Emacs, and he has a blanker disclaimer for
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@ -385,9 +381,9 @@ Makefile.in does now.
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src/gmalloc.c
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- contains numerous copyrights from the GNU C library. Leave them alone.
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src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
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- see comments below. These files are OK to be released with Emacs
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22, but we may want to revisit them afterwards.
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src/ndir.h
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- see comments below. This file is OK to be released with Emacs
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22, but we may want to revisit it afterwards.
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** Some notes on resolved issues, for historical information only
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@ -398,15 +394,6 @@ which year, I can probably tell you which.) Either way, we have papers
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for it." It was present in Emacs-16.56 (15-jul-85). rms: "Then I
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conclude it was written by me."
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etc/ulimit.hack
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Very obsolete file removed March 2007. Doesn't say who the author
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is, but web-search suggests Karl Kleinpaste, who has no Emacs
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assignment. Trivial anyway.
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http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/browse_thread/thread/bf3df496994\
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9f1df/7e5922c67b3a98fb
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http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/cc7e49cacfd1ccb4
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(original 1987 source)
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lisp/term/README
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- had no copyright notice till Feb 2007. ChangeLog.3 suggests it was
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written by Eric Raymond. When asked by rms on 14 Feb 2007 he said:
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HP. So this file is public domain.
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K Rodgers changes
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It was pointed out that K Rodgers only had assigments for VC and
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ps-print, but had changed several other files. We tried to contact
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him for a general assignment, but he proved uncommunicative (despite
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initially indicating to rms he would sign an assignment). As a result, his
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changes were removed and/or rewritten independently. For details, see
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threads:
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00225.html
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00257.html
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But then an assignment arrived before the release of Emacs 22:
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01427.html
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lisp/progmodes/python.el
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Dave Love alerted us to a potential legal problem:
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html
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admin/check-doc-strings
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File says it's in the public domain, but that might not make it so.
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etc/BABYL
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File written long ago by authors with no assignment. Keep them
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without notices for now, try and contact authors if possible. Be
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ready to remove these files if the authors ever object.
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etc/ms-kermit
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etc/e/eterm-color.ti
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src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
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src/ndir.h
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On legal advice from Matt Norwood, the following comment was added
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to these files in Feb/Mar 2007:
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and possibly add a list of all authors who have changed these files.
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(details in email from Matt Norwood to rms, 2007/02/03).
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etc/ms-7bkermit
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Says it was written by Andy Lowry and Joel Spolsky. No entry for
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either in copyright.list. NB this file is not "constrained" like
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ms-kermit (rms: "We know it isn't. A comment at the front says it has
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other bindings which might be handy."). File removed March 2007.
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Re-add if clear up status at some point.
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etc/Xkeymap.txt
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No info on author. File removed March 2007. rms: "It says it is
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RLK's way of remapping his keyboard, so it is not constrained. I think
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it was written by RLK. Let's delete it; if we contact RLK again, we
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can put it back." Actually, RLK == Robert Krawitz has an Emacs
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assignment. So this could be restored if it is still useful, but Jan Djärv
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says it is obsolete:
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<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-03/msg00673.html>
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src/s/aix3-2.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, irix5-0.h, netbsd.h, usg5-4-2.h
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[note some of these have since been merged into other files]
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- all these (not obviously trivial) files were missing copyrights
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